{"id":18312,"date":"2022-08-02T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T09:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dceo-hails-mou-with-police-laa-as-analysts-call-it-a-damp-squib"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:04:22","slug":"dceo-hails-mou-with-police-laa-as-analysts-call-it-a-damp-squib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dceo-hails-mou-with-police-laa-as-analysts-call-it-a-damp-squib","title":{"rendered":"DCEO hails MOU with police, LAA as analysts call it a damp squib"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Analysts this week said a deal struck by three state agencies to quell rampant land fraud was mere political grandstanding bound to flounder sooner rather than later.
\nThis standpoint was bolstered by the fact that the Land Administration Authority (LAA), the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS), were overstretching their job description.<\/p>\n

Experts told Public Eye on Tuesday this week the triumvirate \u201ccannot hope to succeed in this regard when they have failed dismally to execute their individual mandates\u201d.<\/p>\n

They added that while the Memoradum of Understanding (MOU) might bridge the gap between the land administration court whose mandate is to deal exclusively with land disputes and criminal cases pertaining to land, reprieve for land fraud victims \u201cwill be a mammoth of a task to achieve\u201d.<\/p>\n

LAA Director General \u2019Mats\u2019ireletso Lepheana said last week the agreement was intended to fight land crimes including fraud, corruption and \u201cmany other issues related to land administration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lepheana said the deal would facilitate exchange of information to \u201caddress crimes relating to land which seem to be escalating\u201d. According to Lepheana, the MOU would also help level the field with regards to law enforcement on land issues and \u201chelp provide transparent and efficient services to clients\u201d.<\/p>\n

She called on Basotho across the country to provide information regarding land crimes within their communities. Also, Commissioner of Police Holomo Molibeli applauded the LAA for engaging other stakeholders to fight fraud and other land crimes, saying land \u201cseems to be engulfed by crime lately\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice alone cannot fight and eradicate crime. It is only through concerted efforts such as working together with relevant stakeholders that we can attain a crime-free Lesotho,\u201d Molibeli said.<\/p>\n

Molibeli urged personnel from the three entities to ensure collaboration was not only sustainable but also \u201cbeneficial for Basotho and Lesotho\u201d. DCEO Director Advocate Sefako Seema commended the LAA for joining the fight against escalating land fraud.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Seema noted he immensely appreciated co-operation from other bodies and urged \u201cthe public to join this fight\u201d. According to Seema: \u201cLand defines the Basotho nation and if nothing is done about criminal activities surrounding land issues, then Lesotho is doomed.<\/p>\n

\u201d Seema warned perpetrators of corruption, fraud and theft the signing of the MOU \u201cmarks the end of their dubious activities\u201d. Independent political analyst Arthur Majara, doubted the MOU would yield the desired results due to water-tight laws governing land issues.<\/p>\n

These include the now repealed Land Act, 1979 which was replaced by the Land Act, 2010, under which the Land Administration Court was established. Majara noted there was no nexus between the Land Administration Court, LAA, LMPS and DCEO, and that the institutions were seeking to perform functions outside their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cLAA is only an administrative body whose mandate is the allocation of land and keeping of the records. It has absolutely nothing to do with adjudication.<\/p>\n

We also have the DCEO which is an investigative body which investigates cases, working alongside the police to build cases to take to the courts of law,\u201d Majara said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I know for sure is that there is no channel between the DCEO and the Land Administration Court.<\/p>\n

DCEO has no locus standi to take cases to the land court, even if they have investigated it. The land court only entertains land disputes between individuals.
\nMajara added: \u201cSo, I don\u2019t see the possibility of the DCEO and LMPS having the right to take cases before the land court.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter what kind of agreements they sign between the three of them. It makes no difference at all. The legal structure does not allow for the operationalisation of that agreement.
\nInstead of the three institutions working directly with the Land Administration Court, Majara said, the only channel that victims of land fraud could follow was to approach the police \u201cto ease the financial burden on complainants\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegally, those institutions can only work with normal courts of law and not the Land Court. The Land Court does not have powers to preside over criminal cases involving land.<\/p>\n

Such cases are dealt with by regular courts, as criminal cases and not land disputes,\u201d Majara said. \u201cThere\u2019s no connection between the land court and the magistrate court. Even when an individual has stolen land, the case will be heard by a normal court as a criminal case, not a land dispute.<\/p>\n

And, how the case can be declared criminal even if it involves land beats me because, according to the Land Act 2010, disputes are dealt with by the adjudication body of the land court, which means there is connection between the land, magistrates and high courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the Land Administration Court does not deal with criminal cases,\u201d Majara said, \u201cthere would have to be a law linking the normal criminal processes and those of the land court because it only handles disputes.<\/p>\n

\u201d The Land Court, Majara added, also did not deal with disputes involving money but stuck exclusively to land-related issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, if your land was sold say for M1 million and you now want compensation, what the land court will only do is establish who the owner of the land is then direct you to the commercial court to reclaim your costs.<\/p>\n

The land court is strictly about ownership,\u201d Majara said. \u201cAnd, those processes of the land court and adjudication bodies are deeply enshrined in the Land Act 2010 and there is no way that they can be separated or e given a new mandate. It is impossible. \u201d<\/p>\n

For the Land Court to broaden its scope in terms of the nature of cases it dealt with, Majara said there needed to be laws linking the function of that court with the rest of the court but that the new laws would have to be compatible with the law on which the land court was founded.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, there needs to be a new law linking the normal courts to the land court and their cases but still, it is going to take a long time for that to even happen.<\/p>\n

Even for the land court to come to life, it took nearly five years for it to be where it is today. \u201cBut I don\u2019t see any amendments working because they have to be compatible with the law.<\/p>\n

When you make amendments, they have to be compatible with the main statute, in this case being the Land Act 2010. I don\u2019t see how any amendment will fit in,\u201d Majara claimed.<\/p>\n

As regards the LMPS, Majara suggested that the entity was toothless as things stood because it could not intervene in land disputes but could only act as an arbitrator.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is irritating that when there are disputes, people take matters up with the police, only for the police to just mediate because they have no powers to intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheirs is just to play the role of arbitrator by calling the warring parties. Beyond that there is nothing they can do as they have no powers to take anyone to court regarding land disputes,\u201d Majara added.<\/p>\n

On their own, Majara alleged, the LMPS, DCEO and LAA had failed in their individual capacities at institutional level. \u201cSo, what are these institutions are trying to do now that they have failed to do for a long time at institutional level? DCEO can call you for investigations but does not adjudicate.<\/p>\n

DCEO has a statute under which it was established. The LMPS operates in line with the Police Act, 1998 which does not give the institution the powers it is trying to usurp through this venture, while the LAA was founded on the Land Act 2010 which has regulations by which the body functions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe three of them don\u2019t have powers to do what they have signed to do. It\u2019s purely a political gimmick.<\/p>\n

DCEO in terms of pursuing corruption cases is failing while the police, on the other hand, have also failed in terms of their crime statistics. Even LAA is also failing dismally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose institutions in terms of the Acts on which they were founded, are failing to execute their mandates.<\/p>\n

How can they now add a more disturbing load for which they don\u2019t have a mandate? They create the impression that they can handle matters beyond their jurisdiction.
\nHowever, Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) Socio-Economic and Social Justice Officer Rapelang Mosae was more upbeat about about the MOU, noting that while there were challenges created by the spike in land fraud, the agreement sought to close the gaps left by non-existent links between the land court and the three entities and the lack of clarity on how land was allocated.<\/p>\n

Mosae acknowledged fraud had been on the rise \u201cfor quite a while now\u201d caused primarily by conflict between chiefs and the community councils \u201con who has the authority to award land\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe LAA has also failed to curb this (fraud) and thousands of Basotho have fallen prey to this.
\nLand related cases often drag on for a long time in the Land Administration Court and often fail to provide the desired relief to litigants,\u201d Mosae said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MOU therefore has potential to bridge the gap left by the Land Administration Court, which only comes into play when the deed has been done.<\/p>\n

Fraud is also a criminal offence and the Land Administration Court has no jurisdiction on criminal matters hence the MOU may help bring perpetrators to book.<\/p>\n

Mosae, however, expressed concern that restoration of land to original owners could prove to be a turbulent exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestoration of land is bound to be a very turbulent exercise due to the fact that it may now be in the hands of those who are \u2018legal owners\u2019 of it by virtue of being in possession of valid legal documents which the victims may not have,\u201d Mosae submitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, a victim may only have a Form C while the new owners now have a fully-fledged lease.<\/p>\n

Moreover, you may find the land thieves are not the only ones owning the land hence it is going to lead to a long-drawn out property dispute in a bid to restore the rightful owners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn short, the intervention that via the MOU will surely lead to a Pyrrhic victory where the only winners are law enforcement officers who may gain popularity for putting perpetrators before courts of law while the victims are left suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201d Mosae said, the MOU would not in any way \u201cseek to interfere with the processes of the land court\u201d.<\/p>\n

By signing the MOU, LAA, LMPS and DCEO might have had in mind victims like Qacha\u2019s Nek businesswoman Mosimoli Manamolela, who has been locked in a fight with one Tebello Khoromeng, also a businessman in the district, who mysteriously grabbed the Manamolela family plot at the center of the Qacha town and built a shopping complex which he currently rents out to different businesses.<\/p>\n

The disputed land was left to Mosimoli by her late father Mojari Manamolela in a holographic will of September 2006, where the late businessman who died in 2015 divided his estate between his son Thabiso Manamolela and his daughter.<\/p>\n

The Manamolela struggle with Khoromeng began in 2008 when the latter started building on the land without a lease, raising questions as to how his plan was approved and granted a building permit despite not owning the lease of the land in question.
\nThe case stalled in the Qacha\u2019s Nek Magistrate Court before Magistrate Nkhauhele Jobo-Kopung, while Khoromeng went on to build a massive shopping complex on the disputed land.<\/p>\n

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